Intels billion dollar mistake

[copenhagen269]

Anybody have a Sandy Bridge CPU? it seems that Intel has recalled all mother boards for these chips due to faulty sata 2 contollers.

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/Intels-BillionDollar-siliconalley-2692556231.html

[elSquid]

I bought a 2500K Sunday. I normally don't buy cutting edge, but the price/performance made the decision for me.

Of course, the error was made public Monday.

Newegg sent me an email promising me a new mobo when they become available. Such is life.

-- Michael

[nick]

Intel could save some money by just sending out PCIe SATA controller cards.

[RRichie09]

Intel could save some money by just sending out PCIe SATA controller cards.

I don't think people who buy these want a band aid fix.

[Mute]

They're catching it fairly quick and making good. They'll be fine.

[copenhagen269]

I bought a 2500K Sunday. I normally don't buy cutting edge, but the price/performance made the decision for me.

Of course, the error was made public Monday.

Newegg sent me an email promising me a new mobo when they become available. Such is life.

-- Michael

It's my understanding that the sata 3 ports won't be affected so if you have already one of these boards you could simple plug your devices into them.

[Anti-Hero]

Only ports 2-5 are affected. So unless you have multiple drives, RAID, etc. you can just use 0-1 and never experience the problem.

[elSquid]

It's my understanding that the sata 3 ports won't be affected so if you have already one of these boards you could simple plug your devices into them.

Sadly, SSD + HD + DVD. It's not the end of the world - there are a couple of workarounds - but it is annoying.

-- Michael

[UltraLNW]

Dunno that this is really that bad - 6% degradation in performance over 3 years of heavy usage. That means that if you are using a standard 7200rpm SATA 2 drive, you will go from 70mbps R/W speed to 67mbps R/W speed.

In other words, nothing worth worrying about. Good that Intel is fixing it regardless.

[jarhead995]

lol.

[bwiese]

Intel could save some money by just sending out PCIe SATA controller cards.

Correct, and that's what end users can do immediately to get things running.

[NaughtyMonkey]

Yeah, its nice they caught it so quickly, but they should have done a bit more testing before they released them but it happens. This is why I never buy anything when it first comes out.

[Mr.Caketown]

ohoh!

[PanchoVilla]

My understanding of the failure is that it wasn't so much of a degradation but more of over a 3 year timeframe 5% of the parts SATA ports would fail. Even for a laptop that's pretty rough. At least they learned something from the Toyota fiasco.....

Besides its a lot of money, but they just finished a year with 40+ billion in sales so they can probably afford it. Maybe they will pay NVIDIA those licensing fees late or can they still return MacAfee?

I am just bummed since I was about to buy one, now I gotta wait an extra month or two since I think no chipsets shipping for at least like a month or so.

[UltraLNW]

My understanding of the failure is that it wasn't so much of a degradation but more of over a 3 year timeframe 5% of the parts SATA ports would fail. Even for a laptop that's pretty rough. At least they learned something from the Toyota fiasco.....

Besides its a lot of money, but they just finished a year with 40+ billion in sales so they can probably afford it. Maybe they will pay NVIDIA those licensing fees late or can they still return MacAfee?

I am just bummed since I was about to buy one, now I gotta wait an extra month or two since I think no chipsets shipping for at least like a month or so.

Just buy a P67 mobo with a Sandy Bridge CPU on Ebay - they are relatively cheap due to the recall. Then buy 2 SATA III drives - one SSD for the OS, and one large 7200 RPM drive for storage. The SATA III controllers were not included in the listed problems.

You get a cutting edge board and CPU setup for cheap, as the prices have dropped. And you won't see the problem, as you will be using SATA III.

That's what I'd do.